Ville-Veikko Paunu

Main publications

Paunu, V. V. 2025. Put emissions on the map-geospatial approach to air pollution emission analysis. School of Engineering | Doctoral thesis (article-based). Department of Built Environment. 

Paunu, V.-V., Karvosenoja, N., Segersson, D., López-Aparicio, S., Nielsen, O.-K., Schmidt Plejdrup, M., Thorsteinsson, T., Vo, D.T., Kuenen, J., Denier van der Gon, H., Jalkanen, J.-P., Brandt, J., Geels, C., 2024. Air pollution emission inventory using national high-resolution spatial parameters for the Nordic countries and analysis of PM 2.5 spatial distribution for road transport and machinery and off-road sectors. Earth Syst. Sci. Data 16, 1453–1474.

Paunu, V.-V., Karvosenoja, N., Segersson, D., López-Aparicio, S., Nielsen, O.-K., Plejdrup, M.S., Thorsteinsson, T., Niemi, J.V., Vo, D.T., Denier van der Gon, H.A.C., Brandt, J., Geels, C., 2021. Spatial distribution of residential wood combustion emissions in the Nordic countries: How well national inventories represent local emissions? Atmospheric Environment 264, 118712.

McCarty, J.L., Aalto, J., Paunu, V.-V., Arnold, S.R., Eckhardt, S., Klimont, Z., Fain, J.J., Evangeliou, N., Venäläinen, A., Tchebakova, N.M., Parfenova, E.I., Kupiainen, K., Soja, A.J., Huang, L., Wilson, S., 2021. Reviews and syntheses: Arctic fire regimes and emissions in the 21st century. Biogeosciences 18, 5053–5083.

Böttcher, K., Paunu, V.-V., Kupiainen, K., Zhizhin, M., Matveev, A., Savolahti, M., Klimont, Z., Väätäinen, S., Lamberg, H., Karvosenoja, N., 2021. Black carbon emissions from flaring in Russia in the period 2012-2017. Atmospheric Environment 118390.

Kühn, T., Kupiainen, K., Miinalainen, T., Kokkola, H., Paunu, V.-V., Laakso, A., Tonttila, J., Dingenen, R.V., Kulovesi, K., Karvosenoja, N., 2020. Effects of black carbon mitigation on Arctic climate. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics 20, 5527–5546.

Reports

Paunu, V.-V. and J.L. McCarty et al., 2023. Fire in the Arctic: Current Trends and Future Pathways. Arctic Black Carbon impacting on Climate and Air Pollution (ABC-iCAP) Project Technical Report 1. November 2023 vi+20pp.

Paunu, V.-V. and J.L. McCarty et al., 2023. The future of Arctic fires: Leveraging ongoing activities, new efforts, and international cooperation. Arctic Black Carbon impacting on Climate and Air Pollution (ABC-iCAP) Project Technical Report 5.

Media and presentations

IBFRA 2023 Poster, Future pathways for Arctic forest fires, Ville-Veikko Paunu. (pdf, 323 kt) 

ABC-iCAP Transatlantic Meeting: What Next for Black Carbon and other SLCFs Impacting the Arctic? (9 November 2023) Ville-Veikko Paunu

The Arctic on Fire. ABC-iCAP COP27 side event streamed presentation (16 November 2022) Jessica McCarty and Ville-Veikko Paunu.

Webinar: Arctic Fires: 2023 Season and Future Pathways (13 November 2023)

Webinar: Current and near-term future trends of boreal and Arctic fire and smoke (27 October 2022)